John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee 's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1] .

2025年1月13日 · Scopes Trial, also called the ‘Monkey Trial,’ highly publicized trial that took place July 10–21, 1925, during which a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

2017年11月17日 · The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made...

On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes—the defendant in the famous “Monkey Trial”—was indicted for teaching the theory of evolution in his high school science class.

2023年7月30日 · The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

2009年11月24日 · July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a...

2024年5月26日 · The Scopes Monkey Trial, as it came to be known, pitted the teaching of Charles Darwin‘s theory of evolution against the deeply held religious beliefs of the time. The trial‘s outcome and its enduring legacy continue to shape the debate over science education in the United States nearly a century later.

2025年1月14日 · American journalist H. L. Mencken dubbed it the “Monkey Trial.” The facts are these: A high school science teacher, John Scopes, was being tried for violating the Butler Act , a recently passed Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools.

5 天之前 · John Thomas Scopes, right, with his wife, left, reminisce with Nellie Kenyon, reporter for The Tennessean, about the famous 1925 "Monkey Trial" in Dayton during a reunion luncheon May 27, 1967 in ...

2006年6月12日 · Scopes Trial Summary: The Scopes Trial, commonly referred to as the Scopes Evolution Trial or the Scopes Monkey trial, began on July 10th, 1925. The defendant, John Thomas Scopes, was a high school coach and substitute teacher who had been charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching the theory of evolution in his classes.